Noah Kalina photographs

All I'll say is that, to me, these photos are essentially the 'real' unstaged version of Gregory Crewdson's photographs. I'll let them speak for themselves, otherwise...

And I've always loved Francesco Vezzoli, for his needlepoints of Edith Piaf and other crazy shit, like the infamous fake trailer for a remake of the movie "Caligula", but my love elevated to a new height after seeing his latest piece - a 1-minute commercial directed by Roman Polanski starring Michelle Williams and Natalie Portman for a fake perfume that doesn't exist, "Greed." So so great.

Oh oh Kalina also took these incredible portraits of Leslie Hall and Girl Talk:

oh hey, stuff i did

I rarely post work I do in school, so I figured I might for a change. In PhotoImaging, a class I don't particularly like, we had to take our own photos and make a poster for a group photography show, a book cover+back, and a CD cover+back. I chose the "Love Love Love" show at the Martos Gallery I never got to see, but wanted to terribly, one of my favorite Palahniuk books "Invisible Monsters", and my favorite album of all time, Interpol's "Antics." I never think self-taken photographs work well on re-makes of book covers and things, but thankfully Libby had all those extra pills lying around from her pill bracelets cause it made me really happy with the photos I got for the Invisible Monsters cover.

i wrapped the two book covers around actual books that magically fit them perfectly. it was fun to hold them in my hands and see them as 3D functional objects:

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This photo best sums up my life as of late. A little nutty in the personal realm, but still maintaining some calm and peace. We've been watching this Time-Life documentary The American Photograph and we saw the 1930's-1950's installment yesterday and it was stunning. There was this show at MoMA called The Family of Man that was a compilation of black and white photos from around the world showing every walk of life, and I started to tear up watching it, it was so beautiful. Photographs are so incredibly powerful it's so amazing to me. But yeah, things are okay for the most part.

GUYS I HEARD CAT CORA IS COMING TO THE PARTY TONIGHT

This weekend was magic. 'Nuff said.

Sisley's Spring/Summer '09 ads are absolutely incredible. I haven't liked a fashion ad series this much in a long, long time.

Andre Razo's drawings are out of this world, as well.

This commercial fully captures my entire childhood in the early 90's.